USA Poll 9/19

Coaches' Poll

Year: 2004

9/19/2004

Week 3

Rank	Team (FPV)	Points	Prev
1	USC (48)	1,510	1
2	Oklahoma (12)	1,465	2
3	Georgia	1,370	3
4	Miami (1)	1,357	5
5	Texas	1,258	6
6	Ohio State	1,192	7
7	West Virginia	1,047	8
8	Tennessee	971	13
9	California	937	10
10	Auburn	928	15
11	Florida State	896	11
12	Virginia	796	16
13	LSU	795	4
14	Utah	752	14
15	Purdue	662	18
16	Florida	532	9
17	Fresno State	500	20
18	Michigan	476	17
19	Minnesota	435	22
20	Wisconsin	395	21
21	Boise State	346	23
22	Louisville	204	24
23	Maryland	193	19
24	Iowa	24	12
25	Oklahoma State	144	NR

Coaches' Poll
Started in 1950.

More Info

The Coaches' Poll began as a top 20 list in 1950 and was published by United Press International (UPI). In 1990 the poll began listing the top 25 teams.

This poll was published by the UPI until 1991 when USA Today and CNN took it over. ESPN replaced CNN in 1997 as the co-sponsor. After the controversial results in the BCS in 2004, ESPN left and the poll is currently run by USA Today only.

Since the inception of the BCS, the Coaches' Poll must vote the number one team in the BCS poll as number one also. This was supposed to eliminate the possibility of split national titles until the before mentioned 2004 controversy. The winner of the Coaches' Poll is awarded the Waterford Crystal National Championship Coaches' Trophy.